Vienna Waits No More

I have a feeling I’m going to run out of adjectives for my experience with this amazing place pretty quickly. I had quite a few seriously breathtaking “I can’t believe I’m here” moments.

So much history, so many beautiful places and palaces.

It made me think about the way rich people live. Do they know how out of the norm they are? Personally I just think that eating breakfast in a different room than you eat dinner in is just wasteful, and looking at huge portraits of yourself all day would be a little weird, but I guess if that’s what you want… I don’t mind touring the grandeur 200 years later! I wonder what our great grandchildren be touring from our era?

The whole time I had Mozart stuck in my head. We saw his grave, we saw where he played for the Empress when he was six, and we saw the Mozart Requiem performed in St. Karlskirche. It was so cool to see it performed as Mozart would’ve intended. It may have been my favorite part of the trip.


Or maybe the totally awesome art museum! So much cool stuff from ancient Egypt and Rome, paintings by the masters… I could’ve stayed for hours.

Other memorable moments:
-Seeing from the train the German countryside, THE ALPS!!!, and the gorgeous little Alpine villages with their houses with shutters and spilling-over window boxes and their quaint, old town churches.
-Sharing a room in a hostel with a Hungarian guy in only a bright yellow speedo. Uh, creepy! I kept waking myself up in the night to make sure I was okay. I was.
-Getting soaking wet in the rain as we searched for food, and found it in a Pizza parlor with an extremely friendly waiter of questionable nationality (Italian? German? Eastern European? No idea.)
-Getting lost all the time (thank heavens for Laura. I would’ve been lost the whole time without her.)
-Forgetting it was my birthday. Haha. Oops.
-The Catacombs inside Stephansdom, especially the hole where they dumped plague victims. The image of that jaw bone on top of a pile of indiscriminant bones is burned into my head. So mad I didn’t get a picture.
-Walking around the city at night.

I guess Vienna was waiting for me.